Known as: welbourn TEKH
Real Name: Terry Welbourn
Date of Birth: Libra 1958
Family: Tailors and coal-merchants
Previous Bands: Sinking Ships
http://www.sinkingships.co.uk

Previous Releases:
Denis Smokes Tabs (John is a Fig Roll) 7” EP – Wavis O’Shave (Company CR003 1979)
Household Shocks – Various/Compilation LP (Stark 1980)
The Cinema Clock/Strangers – Sinking Ships 7” (Dead Good14/Stark 2) 1980
Dream – Sinking Ships 7” (Recession REC S 1– 1981)
A Giant - The Sons of T.C.-Lethbridge (Aegir Recording Company, 2003)
Mayday! Mayday! The Stan Gooch EP - The ARC Collective (Aegir Recording Company, 2005)
The Stout Guardian of the Door - DUIR (Tekh Limited, 2007)

Favourite Instrument(s): Bass
Home is: NG31
Place of birth: Lincolnshire
First single ever bought: ‘Back Home’ – The England World Cup squad 1970
First album ever bought: ‘The Slider’ – T. Rex

Tekh's 'UNSUNG'
Ultravox - ‘Systems of Romance’
The Handsome Family - ‘Through the Trees’
The Edgar Broughton Band - ‘In Side Out’
Manfred Mann's Earth Band - ‘Solar Fire’
Ride - 'Today Forever EP'
The Comsat Angels - ‘Waiting For A Miracle’
The Mighty Lemon Drops - ‘World Without End’
The Damned - 'Music for Pleasure'

Recommend X5 ‘Desert Island’ singles:
‘Metal Guru’ – T.Rex
‘Another Girl Another Planet’ – The Only Ones
‘Map Reference 410N 930W’ – Wire
‘Can’t Sleep at Night’ – The Cigarettes
‘Wishing Well’ – Free

Recommend X5 ‘Desert Island’ albums:
'The Trials of Van Occupanther' - Midlake
'The Man Who Sold the World' - David Bowie
'Captain Beyond' - Captain Beyond
'Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy' - Eno
'The Spotlight Kid' - Captain Beefheart

Recommend X5 ‘Desert Island’ Fictional Works:
‘The Magus’ – John Fowles
‘The Philosopher’s Stone’ – Colin Wilson
‘L’ Etranger’ – Albert Camus
‘Steppenwolfe’ – Herman Hesse
‘The Playboy of the Western World’ – J.M. Synge

Recommend X5 ‘Desert Island’ Non-Fictional Works:
‘Chaos’ – James Gleick
‘Sexual Personnae’ – Camille Paglia
‘Mysteries’ - Colin Wilson
‘Guardians of the Ancient Wisdom’ – Stan Gooch
‘Origins of the Sacred’ – Dudley Young

Favourite T.C. Lethbridge book:
‘ESP – Beyond Time & Distance’

Worst habit: Road Rage!

Addiction: Red Bull (My body is now free from this destructive elixir!)

Recommend a great place to visit and why:
Kildonan beach on the Isle of Arran. It seems as though you’re a million miles from civillisation but really it ain’t too far away. Oh yes, and there’s a bar!

TEKH?
Thoth was the Egyptian god of writing and also of science and mathematics. Tekh was another of Thoth's names. The Tekh version of his name is found in a variety of technical terms like Tekhnology. The tech- syllable in technology is derived from the god name Tekh. The -tic syllable in mathematic is derived from Tekh. Thoth was the god of astronomy. He was the counter of the stars, the maker of the calendar, and the measurer of time. The tick-tock of the clock is derived from the name of Tekh. It was Thoth who "first taught men to speak clearly." Our word talk (tawk) is derived from Tekh. Thoth was the god of writing. Our word text is derived from Tekh. Thoth was wise. Our word tactic is derived from Tekh-Tekh.

Tekh information courtesy of: http://www.resurrectisis.org/Number6.htm